Sir William Stanley Forester of Wiral

  General Notes:

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol II, Stanley of Hooton pedigree, p. 415, William Stanlegh, lord of Stanlegh and Storeton, grantee of 20 marks per annum in lieu of the forestership, 35 Edward 3, occurs 1 and 11 Richard II, post mortem inquisition, 21 Ricahrd II ⁷¹³

  Information about this person:

• Children. ⁷²¹
Alice de Stanley, married Randle de Rotern of Kyngeslegh
Sir William Stanley, b. 1337; d. 1398
Sir John de Stanley, d. Ardee, Ireland, 6 Jan 1413/14; m. Isabel de Lathom
Ellen de Stanley, m. 1359, John fitz Stephen de Merton
Henry de Stanley

~Boyer's Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 226

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, (Stanley), p. 247. calls him Forester of Wirral Forest, which he successfully claimed in 1361/2. In 1355 he was accused of participating in an attack on the Abbey of Burton-upon-Trent. He is said to have married Alicia Massey, daughter of Hugh Massey of Timperley, but there is no real evidence to back this.